Yes, I was thinking that it was one of these. [ATTACH] My father had a couple of these old 1946 Chevy trucks when I was a kid. They were the...
Here is a Type I in MS-66. These coins are harder to find than you might think. The 75% silver and 25% copper alloy seems to be prone to...
I can't say that I have ever thought about that. It would be a fairly large large collection if you include all of the commemorative coins. For...
Getting one of the first 1,500 is easy, if you have the money :angelic:, because they are more common (1,500 versus and estimated 200 to 300)....
I can't believe that people are paying that much for raw U.S. coin with those kinds of problems. I know it's a key date, but with all the...
I don't have any AU-58+ coins. I do have many AU-58 coins. Many of them were purchased before the TPGs starting using the + signs. This 1802...
I have this short set, but there aren't any great coins in it. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The only really nice ones I have are Proofs. This one is PCGS...
Sorry, I thought I had adjusted that post. According to my records, that 1850 large cent is grade MS-63, Brown. I bought it from "the colonel,...
This one is graded MS-65, Brown. [ATTACH]
I am referring to the fake dusty brown and the flakey gray. I have never seen those colors on an original surface early copper coin. They don't...
It still has the fake "Chinese copper toning" on it, but the experts tell me I'm full of it. "Minor scratch on obverse." If only that were only...
Years ago PCGS had a bad habit of getting variety attribution wrong on the holder. They even got Red Book varieties wrong when the pictures in the...
I have to go at least MS-65, Brown with this piece. It has a lot flash and appears to have almost no problems.
Here is Part Two The big news for coin collectors in 1968 was the resumption of Proof set production. From 1965 to 1967 the mint had issued...
@Kasia, here are a couple of articles that I wrote about the Kennedy half dollar some years ago for my local club. Obviously you won't want to...
The second medal, the William Henry Harrison piece, is a good item, to the right person, is worth some money. It is listed in DeWitt - Sullivan as...
Yes, the bid is up to $4,738.89. I had one that had been lightly polished and recolored with something that looked like shoe polish when I was a...
Having the half cents and large cents come up dry is believable, depending upon how advanced your collection is and how narrow your searches are....
Here is that 1854-O Three Dollar Gold. The thing about this issue is that all of them are weakly struck to one degree or another. This is a PCGS...
I bought an 1854-O Three Dollar Gold Piece in one of those 30th anniversary PCGS holders. I liked the coin and the price. The label didn’t have...
Separate names with a comma.